Playing-card



(No Modell.) y

G. W. MOGEORGB 8u W. C. BANK-S.

PLAYING GARD.

5oz/TH HKOTH. I

COLOR/.1:20, l

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. MCGEORGE, OF BRECKENRIDGE, AND WILLIAM BANKS,

OF ELBERT, COLORADO.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,648, dated October10, 1893.

Application iiled february 21, 1893. Serial No. 463,286. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. MC- GEORGE, residing at Breckenridge,county of Summit, and WILLIAM C. BANKS, residing at Elbert, Elbertcounty, State of Colorado, both citizens of the United States ofAmerica, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPlaying-Cards; and we do declare the following to be afull, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and gures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to an improved game having for its object bothinstruction and amusement. It is to be called the National Game as it isplayed with cards having the names of all the states and territories ofa certain country printed thereon together with the area in squaremiles, the population, the number of counties, while on the margin isprinted the names of all the adjoining or contiguous states, or thosewhich bound the state whose name is on the body of the card.

This specification and the accompanying drawings are prepared withspecial reference to a pack of cards having the names and otherinformation of all the States and Territories of the United States,printed thereon. It will,

however, be readily understood that the cards manner of holding cards inthe hand dur-l ing the progress of a game. In this view the face of onecard is fully exposed to view while the faces of the other cards aremore or less concealed; Fig. 2 illustrates the manner of arranging thecards with reference to the boundaries.

As all the matter printed on all the cards Y players.

is arranged on the same principlethe description of one card willsuffice to make all fully understood. The face of the card representingCalifornia being fully exposed in Fig. l, this card will be describedand from this description all the other cards willbe understood. Withinthe margin of this card and near the top the name of the State isprinted and below this the number of counties, the name of the capitalcity, the people by whom the State was originally settled, date ofadmission into the Union, the chief productionsthe rank of the Statewith reference to and its area in square miles and its population andrank in this respect. Upon the margin of one side is printed the nameOregon as this is considered the top of the card from a map standpoint.Hence Oregon being the northern boundary of the State its name isprinted on this margin, while on the right hand margin are the namesNevada and Arizona since these bound California on the east. And for thesame reason we lind the name Lower California printed on the bottommargin, and Pacific Ocean on the margin at the left.

A number of games may be played by the use of these cards. Theparticular game, however, which we have in mind and which we considerpreferable may be explained as follows:-The cards are iirst shuffled andan equal number dealt to each player until the pack is exhausted oruntil the cards are reduced to a number less than the number of Theseare called odd cards and are to be counted for the dealer. The Districtof Columbia card counts one for the person playing it, and will take anyother card or any trick. The Rhode Island card counts one for the personplaying it, as is also the case with the Alaska card unless it is takenwith the District of Columbia card, and in this event it counts for theperson taking the trick. Excepting the District of Columbia card the onerepresenting the State having greatest area as designated in squaremiles on its face, takes the trick. Each card representing one of theoriginal thirteen States counts one for the person having it in a trickduring the progress of the game. Each trick taken also counts one forthe game. After the cards are IOO all played each one writes down inseparate columns the number of square miles, the number of thepopulation and the number of the counties of the States represented bythe cards he has taken and the largest aggregate of each column countsfive for the person holding the cards represented by the items of thecolumn. Then each player examines his cards with reference to theboundaries of the States represented thereby and as indicated 1n themargins of the cards and each of all the cards that join in this respectcounts one for the holder. For instance the person holding all the cardsrepresented in the group shown in Fig. 2vvould for this reason alonecount six points for the game. The game is played for a certain numberof points and the person getting this number first, Wins.

The cards may be printed in any desired `colors and may be made as neatand attractive in appearance as desired. Each pack of cards should beaccompanied by a suitable number of score cards, Ione for each player,having the rules of the game printed on one side and columns Withsuitable headings as Area Population Counties formed on the oppositeside. This feature will add interest to the game and greatly facilitatethe Writing down and computation of the items. These score cards shouldbe formed of some material which will permit the erasure of the marks sothat the same score card may be used repeatedly.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim is 1. A pack of cardsrepresenting the divisions of a country and having the names of thedivisions respectively printed on the faces of the cards, and the namesof the boundary divisions on the margins ot these faces, substantiallyas described.

2. A pack of cards representing the divisions of a country and havingthe names of the divisions respectively printed on the faces of thecards together with other information as the area, population, 85o., thenames ofthe boundary divisions being printed on the margins and arrangedwith reference to the geographical location of the respective stations,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

GEORGE W. MCGEORGE. WILLIAM C. BANKS.

Witnesses as to signature of George W.

McGeorge:

IsHAM R. HoWZE, IRA W. TEsoH.

Witnesses to the signature of Villiam C Banks:

FRED. W. GUTHRIE, DANIEL D. DE'rWiLER.

